How to cultivate Gardenia jasminoides

Gardenia is very beautiful, and the snow-white flowers are praised by many people. The balcony or indoor bedroom planted at home is very beautiful, so how to raise gardenia? Next, let's take a look.

How to raise gardenia? Introduction of culture methods of Gardenia jasminoides

Gardenia likes warm climate and acidic soil and water, and is suitable for growing in the south, and the north also needs careful care to survive. Otherwise, the cultivation methods of gardenia after death are as follows:

1. Choose acidic potted soil! Potted gardenia soil is required to have an acidic PH value of 5-6. When cultivating gardenia, choose rotten leaf soil, peat soil or garden soil with half of sawdust retting, and remember to use wall soil and cinder as cultivation soil.

2. Watering frequently in the process of breeding! In the process of gardenia culture, the surface of the basin soil needs to be watered when it is dry, and a spray can be used to pour water on the leaf surface in the evening. If the growth is too prosperous and the internodes are longer, they will not be watered in the evening and will be watered again when the sun comes out in the morning.

3. Fertilize regularly! 3% rotten cake fertilizer can be added to the culture soil as base fertilizer. The alum fertilizer made from cake fertilizer and ferrous sulfate retting was watered once a week during the growing season, 0.1% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution was irrigated once or twice in the bud period, and the fertilizer was stopped when the temperature was above 35 ℃ in summer and below 15 ℃ in autumn.

4. More watering and more light! Gardenia likes the sun, but is afraid of the heat and scorching sun. It grows best in a semi-shady place, and 60% of the light throughout the day is enough to meet the needs of its growth.

5. Hibernation and antifreeze in winter. When the temperature drops in winter, the severe cold will damage the roots of gardenia, especially in the north, early in winter and long in winter, so it is very important for gardenia to prevent freezing in winter. It is necessary to wrap the potted flowers with foam and other thermal insulation materials, protect the roots, and put them in the leeward and sunny place to survive the winter, which can recover quickly in spring and bloom early.

6. Change the soil in spring! Indoor potted gardenia flower height of about 30 meters to change the pot soil, if it is to change the pot, then even the soil into the new pot. It is better to change the soil in spring and March, so that it is easier to grow new roots after root injury.

7. Prune before winter! Three main branches are selected according to the shape of the tree, and other branches sprouting from the roots should be cut off at any time. Remember that gardenia can not be cut short in spring, otherwise it will not blossom in that year.

How to raise gardenia

Gardenia can be sowed in spring or autumn,-as much as in spring, spring sowing before and after Rain Water, autumn sowing before and after the Autumn Equinox, seeds mixed with fire ash evenly sown in the sowing ditch, and then cover the flat sowing ditch with fine soil or fiery soil, cover the grass with water, and often keep the soil moist to facilitate seedling emergence, with seeds of 4 kilograms per mu. After emergence, we should pay attention to remove the cover grass in time, weed frequently in the seedling stage, be careful not to hurt the roots of the seedlings, need to dilute human feces and urine after weeding, and can be transplanted after raising seedlings-years later. If the transportation is far away, it is appropriate to use yellow mud slurry root, cover grass to moisturize, plant each hole, cover soil, compaction, and sprinkle water. After planting, one time of weeding and topdressing each year in spring and summer, which can be applied to human and animal manure, barnyard manure, compost, cake fertilizer and so on. Before flowering in summer, it is better to apply fertilizer with more phosphorus and potassium content, and fertilization is carried out after weeding and loosening the soil.

Effect of Gardenia jasminoides

In addition to ornamental, its flowers, fruits, leaves and roots can be used as medicine. Gardenia contains geniposide, dehydroxygeniposide, chicken rattan glycoside methyl ester and a small amount of geniposide, which has the effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, cooling blood and detoxification, jaundice, bloody pain, eye swelling, fire sore, lowering blood pressure and so on. How to grow gardenia in the north:

The color, fragrance, taste, scenery and shape of gardenia have good ornamental value and are loved by people in the north, but gardenia originated in the provinces south of the Yangtze River basin, and its growth habits are not in harmony with the climate of the north. However, if you master its physiological characteristics, gardenia will also have emerald leaves and white flowers like jade in the northern family.

The above is the introduction of how to raise gardenia, if you learn, quickly raise one of your own.